Re: GNU IceCat for mipsel: bugs?

From:

Sam Geeraerts

Subject:

Re: GNU IceCat for mipsel: bugs?

Date:

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:34:06 +0100

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Christophe Jarry wrote:

You should have used autoconf2.13 instead of autoconf. Mozilla dev page says
[1]:
The configure script is a bash shell script; the file is generated from a
file called configure.in which is written with M4 and processed using
Autoconf 2.13 to create the final script. Note: Mozilla uses an old version
of autoconf, because modern versions removed features that are necessary for
our build system.

I haven't tried building Iceweasel myself yet, but I assume it doesn't
have this problem. So that means for gNewSense that we'll have to
continue the path suggested in [1] and apply IceCat patches to Iceweasel
instead of using IceCat straight.

Does Mozilla plan to work with newer versions of autotools? Requiring a
version that old seems a bit silly to me. Does Mozilla have a bug report
about this?

I'm seeing less benefit to gNewSense now to try and reproduce your bugs,
but I might try again when I have some more time.